Attachment C - Telephone Interviews with Claimants/Coworkers and Introductory Letters
 

NIOSH Tracking Number: 

Date: 

Name 

Address 

City, ST Zip 

Dear Name: 

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) requests your help in reconstructing the radiation dose for 

your claim. ORAU, the contractor assisting the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 

(NIOSH) with the dose reconstruction process, will be conducting a telephone interview with you shortly 

to gather information concerning radiation exposure information for your claim. The interview takes about 

an hour on average to complete. If we need additional information that may only be available from 

supervisors, co-workers or others, the interview is also an opportunity for you to help us identify and 

locate these persons. 

Your participation in this interview is voluntary. If you choose to be interviewed, the information you 

provide will be treated in a confidential manner unless otherwise compelled by law. The information you 

provide to ORAU will be shared with staff working for NIOSH and the Department of Labor (DOL), both of 

whom have roles in administering this program. Please note that if you have any special needs for the 

interview (for example, hearing impairments, Spanish-speaking interview, etc.) ORAU will make 

arrangements to meet those special needs. After the telephone interview has been completed, a 

summary report will be prepared and sent to you for your review. Once the report is complete and you 

have had time to review and comment on it, we will proceed with the dose reconstruction process. 

To help you prepare for the interview, we have enclosed a list of the questions that will be covered. 

Please DO NOT send this questionnaire back to us; we will take this information by telephone. 

When you have reviewed the enclosed questions and feel that you are ready to schedule your telephone 

interview, please call ORAU toll-free at 1-800-790-6728 (1-800-790-ORAU) and ask to speak to the 

telephone interview scheduler. Keep in mind that this initial call is simply to SCHEDULE your interview, 

not to actually perform the interview. Our hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, but we 

have found that calls placed between 08:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. may experience a shorter wait time for 

you in scheduling the interview. 

Feel free to call our toll-free number if you have any questions about this letter. You may also get more information 

on ORAU at www.oraucoc.org. 

Sincerely, 

Claimant Communications 

ORAU Team 

Dose Reconstruction Project for NIOSH 

Enclosure 

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EEOICPA Dose Reconstruction Telephone Interview 

Claimant is Covered Employee 

As you may know, NIOSH is responsible for estimating the occupational radiation doses received by 

persons with cancer applying for compensation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness 

Compensation Program. Our contractor, Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), will be 

conducting the interviews. 

This interview provides you with the opportunity to inform NIOSH of any additional information 

regarding your work history that might not be contained in the exposure monitoring information we 

receive from the Department of Energy (DOE) or Atomic Weapons Employer (AWE). While we 

encourage all claimants to participate in the interview process, participation is voluntary. Even though 

some claimants may not be able to answer all of the questions during the interview or have limited 

answers to the questions, any information provided during the interview may be useful in the dose 

reconstruction process. 

Interviews with survivors will seek more general information while the interviews with energy 

employees will contain more detailed questions. This interview should take no more than a half hour, 

although we may have to call you back for additional information. If we need to divide this interview 

into a couple of shorter calls, we can do that as well. While we believe that most dose reconstructions 

can be completed without discussing classified information, we will arrange for a secure interview for 

those claimants who believe such an arrangement is necessary to complete the interview. 

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